balancing or maybe just walking at a slant

As soon as I wrote that post about balancing writing with all other things in life, my work deadlines imploded and I've been crazily busy for the past two weeks. Plus, the people I work with are doing all kinds of exciting things – leaving for new adventures and whatnot (sad for me but still exciting) – so I've been baking lots of cookies. Apparently that's what I do now. Last week: peanut butter kiss cookies. Last night: snickerdoodles. Yum.

So, you might ask, you managed to bake cookies…but ...